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Juliana Silva is a Vancouver-based visual artist, art educator, and researcher originally from Colombia. She holds a Master of Fine Arts from Emily Carr University of Art & Design and a Bachelor of Fine Arts from The National University of Colombia. In 2022, she was a grant recipient from The Canada Council for the Arts in the Component Research and Creation.
In 2019, she was awarded The Andrea Brussa Master Artist Endowment Award from The Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity and attended The Creative Gesture: Designing for Dance residency.

Silva participated in an academic exchange at Concordia University in Montreal. She has exhibited her work in Colombia and Canada, working with various mediums such as sculpture, installation, photography, painting, and animation. Her research explores material culture and its relationship to cultural and political histories. She presented one of her research at the 16th Biennial Symposium of The Textile Society of America in Vancouver in September 2018.

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Juliana Silva (Colombia, 1980)

EDUCATION

2017    Master of Fine Arts, Emily Carr University of Arts & Design, Vancouver, CA

2005    Bachelor of Fine Arts, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogotá, Co

2003    Exchange student in Faculty of Fine Arts, Concordia University, Montréal, CA

RESIDENCIES

2019    Banff Artist in Residence, (The Creative Gesture: Costume Design for Dance), Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity, Banff, CA         

2016    Banff Artist in Residence (Independent Residency – BAiR), Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity, Banff, CA

AWARDS / FELLOWSHIPS 

2022    Grant Recipient, Research and Creation, Canada Council for the Arts, CA

2019    The Andrea Brussa  Master Artist Endowment, Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity, Banff, CA

2018    Scholarship / Bursary to attend Textile Society of America’s 16th Biennial Symposium from The Vancouver Modern Quilt Guild, Vancouver, CA

2018    Grant Recipient, 16th Salón Regional de Artistas, Ministerio de Cultura, Co

2016    Graduate Research Award, Emily Carr University, Vancouver, CA

2015    Colfuturo Fellowship Recipient, Co

2003    Honorable Mention, 10th Salón Regional de Artistas, Bucaramanga, Co

EXHIBITIONS 

One Person Exhibitions

2018    Ropa Blanca, Museo La Bagatela, Cúcuta, Co

2018    Ropa Blanca, Site-specific installation, Vancouver Latin American Film Festival, Vancouver, CA

2014    Objetos Suntuarios, Cámara de Comercio, Bucaramanga, Co

2012    Recetas para la felicidad, Galería Leopold Sedar SENGHOR, Alliance Francaise, Bucaramanga, Co

Group Exhibitions

2022   Deshilar, La revolución cotidiana, Museo La Tertulia, Cali, Co

2019    Mujeres en cuerpo y alma, Sala Macaregua, Universidad Industrial de Santander, Bucaramanga, Co   

2018    Intertwined, Michael O’Brian Exhibition Commons, Emily Carr University, Vancouver, CA.

2018   La Costura abierta, Cali Cultural Center, Cali, Co

2018   Iconografías femeninas, Sala Macaregua, Universidad Industrial de Santander, Bucaramanga, Co

2017    A Cabinet of Curiosities, Elissa Cristall Gallery, Vancouver, CA

2017    Grad Show 2017, Charles Scott Gallery, Vancouver, CA

2017    Living Organisms for Living Spaces – Master of Fine Arts Thesis exhibition, Concourse Gallery, Emily Carr University, Vancouver, CA

2016    WHITINSIGHT, Concourse Gallery, Emily Carr University, Vancouver, CA

2015    Diez años del Programa Jóvenes Talentos, Cámara de Comercio, Bucaramanga, Co

2015    No Copyright, Instituto Municipal de Cultura. Bucaramanga, Co.

2014    Punto de encuentro: Artistas de Santander, Fundación Escuela Taller Barichara, Co

2014    Lenguas de Luz, LA Galería, Bogotá, Co

2014    Entre Ciudades, Museo de Norte de Santander y Ciudad de Cúcuta, Cúcuta, Co

2014    Entre Ciudades, Cámara de Comercio, Bucaramanga, Co.

2013    Nos vemos en el centro, Sala Macaregua, Universidad Industrial de Santander, Bucaramanga, Co

2012    Horas prácticas, Sala Macaregua, Universidad Industrial de Santander, Bucaramanga, Co

2011    Nuevos espacios pictóricos 5,  Galería Leopold Sedar SENGHOR, Alliance Francaise, Bucaramanga, Co

2006    + Arte – Minas, Galería La Balsa, Bogotá, Co

2005    Arte Joven 2005, Museo de Arte Moderno de Bogotá, Bogotá, Co

2005    Zucaina, Galería Valenzuela & Klenner, Bogotá, Co

2005    XI Muestra de trabajos de grado, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogotá, Co

2004    39 Salón Nacional de Artistas, Museo de artes de la Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogotá, Co

2004    Elsewhere, VAV Gallery, Concordia University, Montreal, CA

2003    10 Salón Regional  de  Artistas, Centro Cultural del Oriente, Bucaramanga, Co

PRESENTATIONS

Living Organisms for Living Spaces: Shifting the Function of the Material.Textile Society of America’s 16th Biennial Symposium. The Social Fabric: Deep Local to Pan Global, Vancouver. September 19-23, 2018

WRITING

Living Organisms for Living Spaces: Shifting the function of material. DigitalCommons@University of Nebraska – Lincoln, 2018 https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2112&context=tsaconf

Materiales, decepciones y malos comportamientos, Curatorial text, August 2017. 

Artistas plásticos según su público: Análisis de la plástica bumanguesa desde la visión del espectador. Revista Calle 14, Vol. 8, Número 12, January- April de 2014. http://issuu.com/revistacallecatorceinvestigacion/docs/articulo_

 CURATORIAL PROJECTS

Cámara de Combate – Carlos Colín, The Cinematheque Courtyard, Vancouver Latin American Film Festival, Vancouver, CA, Aug 22- Sep 1, 2019

 Materiales, decepciones y malos comportamientos, Sala Macaregua, Universidad Industrial de Santander Bucaramanga, Co, 2017

ARTICLES AND PUBLICATIONS

BAUTISTA, Sandra Patricia. “Hey Chicas! ¿donde están? Poéticas de acción y reacción del género femenino en el arte Colombiano desde 1980 hasta nuestros días”. Enredars Publicaciones, Sevilla, Spain, 2018 https://www.upo.es/investiga/enredars/?page_id=1114  

TOLOZA, Jose Germán. “Cómo se aproximan los artistas contemporáneos al tema de la mujer. En torno a la curaduría iconografías femeninas”. I+D Revista De Investigaciones, vol. 14, no. 2, 2019, pp. 102–119., doi:10.33304/revinv.v14n2-2019011. http://www.udi.edu.co/revistainvestigaciones/index.php/ID/article/view/218

Cámara de Comercio de Bucaramanga. Nuevos Talentos 10 años.  Book. Bucaramanga. December, 2015.

ARDILA, María Elvira. Arte Jóven 2005, in:  El Tiempo Newspaper, Bogota. November 19th, 2005.  Arte Joven Colombiano

Los Nuevos del Salón, in: Cambio Magazine # 578, Bogota. July 26th, 2004.

MARTÍNEZ, Serafín. Bienvenidos al Cuento de Hadas in: Cátedra Libre Newspaper, Bucaramanga. February, 2004. Bienvenidos al cuento de hadas

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